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ISAAC S. DEMENT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AND ARTHUR D. KING, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, "ASSIGNORS, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO AMERICAN MECHANICAL CASHIER- COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEV JERSEY.

MECHANICAL CSHIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 702,710, dated June 17, 1902. Application filed January 4, 1901. Serial No. 42.081. p (No model.)

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Be it known that we, IsAAc S. DEMENT, re-V siding at Chicago, in the county of'Cook and State of Illinois, and ARTHUR D. KING, residying at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, citizens of the United States, have invented certain'new and vuseful Improvements in Mechanical Cashiers, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to improvements in lmechanical cashiers, and particularly to improvements in a cashier of the type shown and described in Patent No. 618,932, granted to Isaac S. Dement anduCharles F. BassettFebf ruary 7, 1899.

The object of the present invention is to simplify the construction of certainof the controlling and operating mechanisms of a cashier such as described in said patent, parzo ticularly the devices which are termed in said,

patent the controllers and the mechanism connected therewith.

In the present invention the operation of the cash-receptacles by the controller is direct 2 5 and positive, and a separate operating device is provided for turning back the 'cash-.receptacle to deliver change, and this operating device is also positive and direct in operation and all looseness land nnreliability in action 5o of the parts are obviated. v

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is anl end elevation, with parts removed, of so much of the cashier as relates to the present invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the machine with the lower part in section on line A A in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a Vertical section on the line B B in I ig.V 2, the handle, however, being shown in position on the shaft, so as to more clearly show the operation. Fig. 4: is a 4o section onthe line C Cin Fig. 2, showing certain clutchlnechanism forthe controller and its operating devices. Figs. 5,' 6,*and 7 are detail views of the parts of such clutch mechanism. Fig. 8 isa section of said clutch mechanism on theline D D in Fig. 4. Figs. 9 and,10 are vertical sections on the line E E inpFig. 2, showing the stop mechanism for the controller in two different positions. Fig..11 is a'vertical section of the key mechanism on Ithe line F in Fig. 1 looking toward the 5ol front of vthe machine. Figs. 12 and 13 are vertical sections on the line G G in FigQ2, showing the operatingmeans for the resetting devices in two dierent positions.

The general construction ofy the cashier` is substantially as shown in the patent above referred to, and we have herein shown only'such parts of same as bear directly-or indirectly on the present invention. Thus most of the casing, the indicatdr'mechanism, and of the key 6o and permutation mechanisms are omitted. Moreover, since as far as this invention is concerned each of the. elements comprising a cash-wheel with its corresponding controller and operating device is'identical with 'the 65 others, we have shown only one 'of such elements, together with certain operating mechanism and resetting means at one end of the y `machine which is common to all of such elements. 7o I 1 is the frame of the machine, made of suitable shape to supportthe various parts. On a shaft 2, supported in this frame, are loosely mounted the cash-receptacles, one of which is shown at 3, the casing 14 of the machine 75 being provided with an aperture 14a, located opposite each cash-wheel, so as to expose one receptacle of such Wheel at a time. Each cash-receptacle 3 is operated and controlled yto receive and deliver ,the cash by certain 8o controller and operating mechanisms. In this case we have shown such mechanisms as comprising two separately-mounted partsnamely, a controller, key, or lever 4, mounted on a shaft,l and operating mechanism mounted on a shaftisaid shafts 5 and 6 being parallel to cash-wheel yshaft 2. The controller-lever 11 carries an operating -key or button 4a and is adapted to engage, byalatch or pivoted iinger`8 at itsvend, the teeth 9 on `9o the cash-wheel receptacle, such teethserving also as a means for retainingthe coin in place on the wheel. A spring 8a serves to hold the. inger 8 in extended position, withV its shoulder 0r lug 8b engaging the bottom of lever 4. 95 Lever 4 also carries .a spring-latch 10, engaging a shoulder 11a on a sliding catch or detent 11, sliding in guides 12` on the under side of the cash-delivery trough 12 and having a notched portion 11b engaging the teeth 9 in the cash-receptacle, a spring 13 serving to drawthe detentintosuch engagement. When lever 4 is depressed by key 4f, its projection 1O withdraws detent 11 from the vcash-wheel and its pivoted latch or finger 8 engages one of the teeth of the cash-wheel to turn it the space of one cash-receptacle and carry the exposed cash -receptacle forward, so as to withdraw same from exposed position. A spring 15, attached to a normallyvstation ary part 45 and to a link bar or rod 17, pivoted to lever 4, serves to return the said lever, the return movement being finally arrested by a lug 4b striking the cash-delivery trough 12. The link 17 serves to connect the controller with the tumbler or permutation mechanism, so as to determine or control the operation of such mechanism in accordance with the principle of operation set forth in the patent aforesaid, the said link 17 being pivoted to one end of a lever 18, pivotally supported by rod or shaft 19, and pivoted at its other end to a link 20, whose lower end passes through a fixed guide-plate 2l into position to engage with one arm 22 of a rocking sleeve 22, mounted on a shaft 23 and adapted to control the operation of the selector-bars or tuniblers. Said tumblers consist of two parts 24 25, connected with capacity of relative movement, but both adapted to slide in guideplates 1a, part 24 being provided with lugs or projections 24, engaged by the arms 26rl of the permutation-shafts, one of which is shown at 2G, said shafts extending over the tumblers and engaging by arms 2Gb with the purchasekeys, one of which is shown at 27. Said keys are provided with return-springs 28, and may also be provided with locking devices, as in the patent above referred to. The tumblerbar 24 extends back over a lip or arm 22b of permutation-sleeve 22 and into proximity of an arm 30' of a sleeve 30, mounted loose on ashaft or rod 31, said sleeve also carrying,r an arm 30, adapted to control the operation of the operating mechanism for the cash-receptacle to cause the latter to be turned back to deliver change under the proper conditions.

The operating mechanism for turning back the cash -receptacle is mounted, as above stated, on a shaft 6, separate from the shaft carrying the controllers, this shaft G carrying the operating-handle 32, by which the cashdelivery operation, as well as resetting, is effected, and such operating mechanism comprises a disk 33, fastened on said shaft by a spline 33h, an operating device in the form of a disk 34, loose on said shaft and provided with a tooth or lug 35, adapted to engage the teeth 9 of the cash-wheel to effect the return movement thereof, and clutching means adapted to con neet or disconnect parts 33 34, according to whether that particular cashwheel under the existing conditions of controllers and of the purchase-keyboard is to be operated to deliver change. Such clutching means, Figs. 4, 5, and 8, consists of a pin 36, sliding in a hole 34b in disk 34 and pressed toward disk 33 bya spring 37, so as to force the end of said pin 33 into a hole or depression 33a in disk 33 when such hole is opposite the pin. The end of pin 36 and the depression 33a are beveled or rounded, so that as disk 33 starts to turn from this position it tends to cause the pin to ride out of the hole and disengage the clutch. A controlling bar or plate 38, guided by its slotted portion 38a sliding over the shaft G and by its lower end engaging with the arm 30b of lever 30 aforesaid, carries a detent-lug 39, adapted to engage a lip 35b on the lug 35 of the operating device to stop same, and a slotted portion 40, adapted to cooperate with clutch-pin 36 to control the engagement and disengagement of the clutch. If said bar 38 is in raised position, its slot 40 is above the pin 36, as shown in full lines in Fig. 8, so that as the disk 33 rotates the pin 36 cannot be pressed out of hole 33, owing to the other end of said pin bearing against the controlling bar or plate 38, and the disk 33 under these circumstances carries a disk 34 around with it; but if bar 38 be lowered its slot 40 will come into thepath of pin 36 and allow the latter to be pressed out in the rotation of disk 33, and the latter disk 33 is free to rotate without rotating the operating device 34. Disk 34 carries, beside the lug 35, a cam 42, (see Fig. 6,) adapted to engage an arm 43a, extending from a sleeve 43, loose ou shaft 5, said sleeve also carrying a tooth or projection 43h, adapted to engage a lug 11b (see Fig. 2) on the sliding rod 11, so that when said cam operates the arm 43L the tooth 43b will press the slide 1l to release the cash- 'wheel, so that as the operating device 34 rotates its lug 35 can turn the cash-wheel one step by engagement with a tooth 9 of same. The detent or dogging means 1l serves to lock the cash-wheel from movement in either direction, and it may be released, as above described, either from the 'controller means 4 or from the operating means 34. The lug 35 also serves to operate the ejector-lever 45, which is pivoted on the shaft 19 so as to be free to move back and forth between the two halves of the cash-wheel, and carries an arm or tail 46, engaged by said lug 35, to throw the lever 45forward between the cash-wheel sides to eject the cash. A part 45 of the ejector-lever 45 serves for attachment of controller-spring 15, as above stated. A cam 1G, fast on disk 34, is adapted to engage a lug 38b on the controlling-bar 38 to depress said bar and restore it to normal position after each operation. These various operations of the operating mechanism are effected by the handle 32, fast on the shaft 6, the disk 33 rotating with this shaft, but only carrying the operating-disk'34 with it when the corresponding controller-bar 38 is in elevated position, and the position of the controller-bar is in turn dependent on the action of the tumblers as controlled by the controllers, pur- ICO IIO

`connected to the-locking-slide 49.

chase-keys, and permutating'devices. The shaft 6 isnormally locked from rotation by certain locking means, consisting of a disk 48 with a notch 48 engaged by a slide 49, (see Fig. 9,) which has a fork portionv 49:L engaging over the shaft 19 and sliding through a slot in fixed frame-plate 21, thelower end the shafts 26 to rotate and the tumbler-barV 52 to move backward, thus turning the lever 50 and causing slide 49 to be withdrawnfrom the locking-disk 48, as shown in Fig. 10.

vlug of said slides.

Pawl 53, pivoted to a fixed support, engages a ratchet-wheel 54, fast on shaft 6, so as to prevent back movement of said shaft.

Our invention includes an improved means for operating the resetting-bar 56, which is adapted to perform various resetting operations required by the register and permutating mechanism. Said bar slides in fixed guide 57 and has an arm 56.a embracing the end of a lever 58, pivoted on shaft 19 and carrying at its upper end a fork 59, engaged by afpin or stud 60 on the ratchet-wheel 54, so that as the shaft 6 rotates saidstnd will first strike one arm of the fork to throw the resettingbar one way, as shown in Fig. 13, and then strike the other arm of the fork to return the said bar, as shown in Fig. 12. A pivoted plate 61 is engaged by the bar 56 to return certain tumblers to normal position. This pivoted `plate 61, as shown in Fig. 1, extends along inI frontfof all of thekey-operated slides 25 and its lower portion is adapted to engagea downwardly-projecting portion or Thus when any slide is operated it will move the lower part ofplate 61 forward and the upper part of said plate backward, so that when the resetting-bar 56 next operates, as above described, it will engage said plate, throwing the under part of same backward and driving back any slide 25 that may have been operated.

Eccentric 62 with link 6 3 and lever 64 are parts of the operating mechanism for the register and recorder, which is operated from the shaft 6, but is not shown herein, as it forms no part of our present invention.

The operation of the above-described mechanism is as follows: When the operator, having deposited the money in the receptacle of the cash-wheel 3, depresses the controller-lever 4, the projection or lug l0 on said lever strikes the slide 11 and moves it to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 3, thus releasing the cash-wheel. At the same time the pivotedl end piece or nger 8 of thesaid lever 4 engages atooth 9 of the cash-wheel to turn the wheel forward-one step, and thusremove the cash deposit from the opening. Finally,` as the controller-lever 4- continues this movement its projectionv 10 passes od of dotted lines in Fig. 3, and the slide is snapped back by spring 13 into engagementwith the next tooth of the cash wheel.

itto pass the tooth 9. Assuming that a purchase has been made, the cash received beoperator hasdepressed the proper purchase- Akeys-for example, the key 27 shown in the drawings-operation of this purchase-key will cause operation through shaft 26 of nn- `the shoulder 11` of the Slidell, as shown in When rel leased, the controller 4 is thrown back by l vspring 15, its pivoted finger yielding to allow j ying deposited, as just explained, and that the j locking-slide 52, so as to release saidslidey from disk 48 and leave the operating-shaft 6 free to rotate. handle 32 one completerotation, and if lthe controller and purchase-key'op'eration has The operator then turnsthe j l been such as to raise the controllingbar 38 i the operating-disk 34 will remain clutched to the shaft 6 uand will cause delivery of change.-

The lug 39 on the controlling-bar38 will also be raised out of thepath of projection 35b on tates itI passes from 'normalgposition (shown the operating-disk 34. A As the handle32 rof j in full lines in Fig. 3) to dottedposition 32',-

at which moment the lug 35 on disk 34 ,be-

gins to engage a tooth 9 of cash-wheel 3,*asv shown at 35', and meanwhile the cam 42 has moved arm 43a and projection 43b toy push out the catch or slide 11 and release the cash' reaches position shown at 32 in dotted lines 1' the lug 35', as shown at 35", engages the tail 46 of lever 45 -to throw the ejector-lever for-.`

ward and eject the change. Finallythe handle com es around again to the full-linev position with lip 35D stopped by lug 39f/onl the controlling-bar 38, the said bar having been allowed to fall by reason of the lresetting of all the register andfpermutating mechanisms to normal position by the resetting-bar 56,

the operation-of which has taken placeas above described, during the rotation ofshaft 6. As the shaft 6 completes its rotation the slide 49, which has also been released owing to the operation of the resetting means, en-

gages the notch in disk 48 to stop said shaft in normal position. lf the operation ofk the controllers and purchase-key mechanismhas been such as to leave the controller-bar 38 in depressed position, then while the shaft 6 will be unlocked andmay be rotated by the operator its rotation will not aifect this particular cash-wheel,owing to disengagementof the clutch, as above. explained.

It will be seen that the above-described construction lprovides for the operation 'of the f ejector-lever for each cash-receptacle individually-that is, such lever is only operated when the corresponding cash-receptacle wheel is operated to bring cash to ejecting position.

Having thus described our invention, the following is what we claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a mechanical cashier, the combination with the cash-receptacle, of a lockingdog preventing its operation in either direction, and a controllerkey and an operating means, adapted to move the cash-receptacle in opposite directions and both adapted to release the said dog to permit movement of the cash-receptacle.

2. In a mechanical cashier, the combination with a cash-receptacle and a casing having a cash-opening, of a controller-key arranged to engage the cash-receptacle to move the deposited cash away from said opening and means for moving said receptacle in reverse direction to move the deposited cash back to the opening.

3. In a mechanical cashier, the combination with a cash-wheel of a pivoted controllerkey provided with a yielding portion arranged to engage the cash-wheel to move it in one direction of movement of the key, but allow return movement of the key without operation of the cash-wheel, and means for moving the cash-wheel in the other direction independently of the controller-key.

4. In a mechanical cashier, the combination with a cash-wheel having teeth, of a pivoted controlling keylever arranged to engage said teeth to turn the cash-wheel in one direction only, an operating device adapted to engage said teeth to turn the cash-wheel in reverse direction, and means for locking the cash-wheel from movement in either direction.

5. In a mechanical cashier, the combination with a cash-receptacle wheel and means for moving same to expose or withdraw a receptacle, of means for locking the cash-receptacle wheel in the position to which it is moved.

6. In a mechanical cashier, the combination with a cash-receptacle and locking means for same, of a controller arranged to move thezcash-receptacle and connected to the locking means to release same.

7. In a mechanical cashier the combination with a cash-wheel and a locking-catch engaging same, of a controller-key arranged to engage the locking-catch to release the cashwheel and also adapted to engage the cash- Wheel to move same after such release.

8. In a mechanical cashier, the combination with a cash-Wheel and a lockingcatch engaging same, of a controller-key arranged to engage the cash-Wheel to move same and provided with a projection engaging the locking-catch and arranged to release the cashwheel to allow it to he moved by the controller, and to then release the catch to allow it to again lock the cash-wheel.

9. In a mechanical cashier, the combination with a cash-receptacle and a controller means adapted and arranged to move same in one direction, of operating means, separate from the controller means, for moving the cash receptacle in the other direction.

lO. In a mechanical cashier, the combination with a cash-receptacle and a casing having an opening opposite the cash-receptacle, of a controller means adapted to move said receptacle, away from said opening, and operating means, separate from the controller means for moving the receptacle back to said opening.

11. In a mechanical cashier, the combination with a cash-1'eceptacle wheel and a controller means adapted to move same to withdraw a receptacle thereof, of operating means, separate from the controller means to move the said wheel to expose such receptacle.

l2. In a mechanical cashier the combination with a cash receptacle, of controller means adapted to move the receptacle in one direction, operating meansseparate from the controller means to move the said receptacle in opposite direction, and locking means for said operating means controlled by the controller means.

13. In a mechanical cashier, the combination with a cash-receptacle, controller means adapted to move the receptacle to withdraw same, purchase-key mechanism, operating mechanism, separate from the controller means for moving the cash-receptacle to expose same, and mechanism controlled by the controller means and by .the purchase-key mechanism and controlling the operating mechanism.

14. In a mechanical cashier the combination with a cash-receptacle wheel and its controller means adapted to move same in one direction, of an operating means separate from said controller means for moving said wheel in reverse direction comprising an operating-shaft, an operating device loose on said shaft, clutching means for clutching said operating device to the shaft, and connecting mechanism whereby operation of said controller means controls the said clutching means.

l5. In a mechanical cashier, the combination with a cash-receptacle Wheel, of an operating means for same, comprising a shaft, an operating device loose on said shaft and a clutching means for clutching said operating device to said shaft comprising a spring-pin on one of said parts adapted to engage the other part, and controlling means adapted to engage said spring-pin to control the engage ment of said clutching means.

16. In a mechanical cashier, the combination with a cash-receptacle wheel, controller means adapted to move said wheel in one direction and a purchase-key mechanism, of an operating device for the receptacle-wheel in reverse direction, an actuating-shaft therefor, a clutch connection between said shaft and operating device, mechanlsm controlled IOO IIO

by said controller and bythe purchase-key mechanism and means controlled bythe said mechanism to control the said clutch.

17. In a mechanical cashier, the combination with a cashfreceptaclewheel, of an operating means therefor comprising a shaft arranged to rotate in oneV direction only, land provided with an operating-handle, means operated by the rotation of said shaft to turn said cash-receptacle wheel, `alock forl said cash-receptacle wheel andl means controlled by said shaft to release said lock. V

11S. In a mechanical cashier,,thecombinar tion with a cash-receptaclewheel, of operatin gmeans therefor, comprising a shaft, a handle on said shaft and means operated` by rotation of ,the shaftto turn-the cash-receptacle Wheel, means for preventing backward movement of the shaft, alock for said cashrecep. tacle wheel and means controlledby said shaft to release ysaid lock. Y

19. In a vmechanical cashier, the combination with a cash-receptacle wheel, of operating means therefor, comprising a shaft, alian-` dle on said shaft and meansgoper'ated by rotation of the shaft, to turn the cashrecepta-- 3' tion with a uplurality of cash f receptacle wheels, Lof `operating devices adapted to move i the said cash-receptacle Wheel to ejecting po.- sitiOn, independentejecting devices-for the respective wheels, a shaft operating all of saidI cle Wheel, pawl-and-ratchet means for,pre. venting backward movement of thefshaft, locking means Vfor preventing movement of the cash-receptacle wheel in either direction,, and means controlledby the said shaft to release said locking means. l

20. In a mechanical cashier, the'combination with a cash-receptacle Wheel, of loperat-4 ing means therefor, comprising a shaft, a handle on said shaft andl meansoperated by rotation of thesliaft to turnI the cash-recepta. cle wheel, locking means forpreventin g such rotation of the shaftand means for releasing such locking means.

- l2,1. In a mechanical cashier,'the combination with a cash-,receptacle wheelandpurchase-key. mechanism, ofoperating means for the cash-receptacle comprising-a shaft andmeansoperated by rotation of said shaft to turn the cash-receptacle wheel, LdetentA means. for preventing such rotation of the shaft and means operated by the purchase-,key mechanism to release such detent means.

22. In a mechanical vcashier, the combination with a cash-receptacle,wheelanda purchase-key, of operating means for the cashreceptacle comprising a shaft and means operated by rotationof said shaft to turn the. cash-receptacle wheel, detent means for preventingsuchrotation of the shaft, a slide operating said detent means and a shaftprovided with means 4adapted toengage the saidslide and with means engaged by the purchase-key,.to release the operatingfshaftfor the cash-receptacle, upon operation of a purchase-key.

23. In a mechanical cashier,.the.combina tion with a plurality of. cash receptacle wheels, ofoperating devicesadapted to move- 4the wheels to position for ejecting cash, and

comprising an operating-shaft, operating de- .vices looseon said shaft, and clutchingmeans for connecting the said operating devices to `devices carried therebyand -adaptedto engage the cash-receptacle wheels to-move the same to ejecting position, and ejecting deL vices engaged respectively and operated 1ndependently by lsuch operating devices.

25.` Ina mechanical cashier, the combinathe combina.- y

tion with a cash-receptacle wheel, of an opv :erating-shaft and operating device carried looselythereb'yv and .adapted to engage the cash-receptaclewheel,clutching means adaptu edto'connect said .shaft and operating device, and a controlling device adapted'to engage the saidoperatingdevice to .stop same and to engage the said clutching device to connect same.

26.v In a mechanical cashier, the combinaejecting devices, and clutchA connection lbef tween said shaft i and ej ecting.. devices contion with a cash-receptacle wheel 1 and lock. ing meanstherefor, of an operating-shaft, a cam operated by said shaft and meansoperated by said cam to release the aforesaid locking means,.and an operating device alsoop-A 'erated by said shaft and adapted to operate the cash-receptacle.

" 28. In a mechanical cashier, the combina:

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and means carried by said rotatable'shaft andengaging positivelywith such operating means to move it alternately in opposite -di-y rections-in'the rotation ofy .the shaft.y

29. Ina mechanical cashier,.the combina tion with the cashreceiving and delivery mechanism, and'. the purchase-key mechanism,.of resetting means forthelpurchase-.key mechanism, a rotatable operating-shaft and,y means engaged positively` by. said shaftfin-its rotation to move the resetting means ',alter` `nately in opposite directions.

I sAAos. DnMntrr.4 ARTHUR .n.nnte.

' Witnesses:

JAS. BALE, Jas. LEENHoUrs. 

